Blood Bank

Heb 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come-- In the volume of the book it is written of Me-- To do Your will, O God.' " 8 Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

When you donate blood, you must not only submit to a screening process for blood-type - but also for quality.

Especially in this day and age, the blood you receive could literally mean life and death.

If the blood is tainted, it will be ineffective, and will eventually cause more harm than good, even if it provides a momentary benefit and gets you out of the hospital in the short-term.

If you are fooled into thinking you have what you need, only to find out later that the blood you received will actually kill you, then you know what the author of Hebrews is talking about in chapter 10.

The blood of bulls and goats cannot make you perfect. The continual effort of making an offering of animal sacrifice cannot make you perfect either. Logically, this should have set in as a concept long ago, since those offerings had to be made continually.

And now to find people still trusting more in what does NOT save over and above what DOES is mystifying, and yet we see it every day. All around us. In every walk of life. It is called ‘religious practice.’

People would rather trust in what they can see with their eyes over what they must trust by faith – even if they must suspend logic in order to do so. How could the blood of a goat save you, especially since it must be offered continually?

Only the blood of Jesus saves. You can take that to the bank.

-  Pastor Bill